Title : Review of _Understanding Company Law: : Computer Tutorials_ Author : Pei Teing Kee Organisation : Murdoch University School of Law Keywords : Computer assisted learning; company law; : computerised tutorials; Abstract : Student review of a computerised tutorial : package for use in teaching Australian : company law. Contact Name : The Editors, E Law Contact Address: Murdoch University School of Law, PO Box 1014, : Canning Vale, Western Australia, 6155 Contact Phone : + 61 09 360 2976 Contact Email : elaw-editors@csuvax1.murdoch.edu.au Last Verified : Last Updated : Creation Date : 22 December 1994 Filename : colaw.txt File Size : 4K File Type : Document File Format : ASCII Publication Status: Final COPYRIGHT POLICY: Material appearing in E Law is accepted on the basis that the material is the original, uncopied work of the author or authors. Authors agree to indemnify E Law for all damages, fines and costs associated with a finding of copyright infringement by the author or by E Law in disseminating the author's material. In almost all cases material appearing in E Law will attract copyright protection under the Australian _Copyright Act 1968_ and the laws of countries which are member states of the _Berne Convention_, _Universal Copyright Convention_ or have bi-lateral copyright agreements with Australia. Ownership of such copyright will vest by operation of law in the authors and/or E Law. E Law and its authors grant a license to those accessing E Law to call up copyright materials onto their screens and to print out a single copy for their own personal non-commercial use subject to proper attribution of E Law and/or the authors. ISSN: 1321-8247 EMAIL RETRIEVAL: send message "get elaw-j colaw.txt" URL: gopher://infolib.murdoch.edu.au:70/00/.ftp/pub/subj/law/jnl/elaw/ current/colaw.txt ftp://infolib.murdoch.edu.au/pub/subj/law/jnl/elaw/current/ colaw.txt -------------------------------------------------------------- Review of Phillip Lipton and Abe Herzbert, _UNDERSTANDING COMPANY LAW: COMPUTER TUTORIALS_ (5th edition), Sydney: Law Book Company Ltd, 1993; Software by Microcraft Pty Ltd 1993. Pei Teing Kee These computer tutorials were designed to enhance learning by enabling students of Company Law to revise facts and concepts, practise skills, problem solve and apply and test their knowledge. Full directions for loading the program are found at the back of the text Understanding Company Law. The tutorials are structured in a similar fashion to the text with 5 main divisions: Introduction to Computer Based Tutorials; Introduction to Corporations (Chapters 1-6); Corporate Financing (Chapters 7- 11); Corporate Management (Chapters 12-16); Corporate Restructuring (Chapters 17-20). Each of these main divisions constitute a selection of tutorials which test the contents of one to two chapters in the text. There is a good variety of questions which are useful for revising and testing knowledge including multiple choice, matching, true/false and short answer. Each tutorial consists of 15 questions and some involve a fact scenario followed by a few questions which enable testing of problem solving skills. The tutorials employ good graphics and relate closely to the text. This enhances its usefulness to students studying from Understanding Company Law as a prescribed text. The tutorials are also informative. As each question is attempted, the computer indicates whether the answer given by the user is correct or incorrect and includes a brief explanation, sometimes citing cases and relevant sections in the Corporations Law. The score for each tutorial being attempted is conveniently displayed on the screen and updated as the user proceeds from one question to the next. There is a great deal of flexibility in that the user may exit a tutorial at any time and need not complete tutorials in any particular order. The user may view results of all tutorials attempted at one sitting and the time taken for each tutorial. The computer based tutorials can be used to enhance learning at the user's own pace and serve as a helpful companion to the Understanding Company Law text.